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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. One of the most frequent challenges we observe in the field is that companies tend to radically underestimate the threat that disruptive change poses to their business.

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How Smart Cities Save Money (and the Planet)

Harvard Business Review

The department is now able to share information with neighboring cities like Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, and almost 50 other cities throughout the state of Arizona, essentially tearing down those invisible barriers. This has been invaluable in assisting the Mesa PD fill in the gaps that help its investigators.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

In 2006, the last time a President had to nominate a Fed chairman, the job went to Ben Bernanke, who had spent his entire career as an economics professor before being called up to Washington for a stint as a Fed board member in 2002. One obvious and unsurprising trend in the chart is that overall educational standards have risen.